Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services Contracts

Microsoft Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 706 821
Rank change year-on-year +126 +115 -188
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services 2 6 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.010% 0.038%
As % of the System Software category 0.042% 0.075% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 26
10th Percentile - £524 £463
25th Percentile - £534 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £546 £570
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +14.00%
75th Percentile - £563 £623
90th Percentile - £568 £655
UK excluding London median daily rate - £543 £613
% change year-on-year - -11.43% +20.10%

All System Software Skills
UK

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,706 7,983 12,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.78% 13.27% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,218 5,718 8,652
10th Percentile £197 £205 £200
25th Percentile £325 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +8.81%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £488 £448
% change year-on-year -5.64% +8.94% +7.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 290 328
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.08
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.82 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £52.13 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.84% +160.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £44.77
90th Percentile £73.88 £75.53 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £40.00 £18.12
% change year-on-year -47.50% +120.81% +2.06%

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services in the UK

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services in the UK

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services in the UK

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +120 2 - -
London - 2 - -

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2013
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DKIM
1 2 (100.00%) DMARC
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) Messaging Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Antivirus Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (100.00%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) McAfee